First Edition of the First Standard Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable to be Understoode of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes... More

Financial Consequences of Estates Forfeited by the Jacobites [Dalrymple, Sir David (c.1665-c.1721)]. The Laws and Judicatures of Scotland, Vindicated from the Calumnies and False Reasonings Contain'd in a Late Pamphlet Intitled, The Case of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland, Consider'd: In a Letter to a Noble L-d. Edinburgh: Pirnted [sic]..... More

Historic Study of Gavelkind Somner, William [1598-1669]. A Treatise of Gavelkind, Both Name and Thing. Shewing the True Etymologie and Derivation of the One, The Nature, Antiquity, And Original of the Other. With Sundry Emergent Observations, Both Pleasant and Profitable to be Known of Kentish-Men and Others, Especially Such as... More

Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette, Elie. [Sparrow, Thomas (1746?-1780?), Engraver]. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland, Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form, and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments, For... More

The First Standard English Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Wils [sic], Very Profitable to be Understood of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes the... More

A "Profound" Scholar of Estates and Real-Property Preston, Richard [1768-1850]. An Essay on the Quantity and Quality of Estates, With More Immediate Reference to the Law of Merger. Corrected with Additions. Philadelphia: John S. Littell, 1843. xiv, 244 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/4"). Recent cloth, lettering piece to spine, endpapers... More

Historic Study of Gavelkind Somner, William [1598-1669]. A Treatise of Gavelkind, Both Name and Thing. Shewing the True Etymologie and Derivation of the One, the Nature, Antiquity, and Original of the Other. With Sundry Emergent Observations, Both Pleasant and Profitable to be Known of Kenting-Men and Others, Especially Such as... More

An Authority on the Laws of Ohio Giauque, Florien [1843-1921]. The Settlement of Estates of Deceased Persons, Including the Subjects of Wills, Executors, Administrators, Testamentary Trustees, Dower and Partition, and Other Matters Connected with Such Estates in Ohio with Numerous Notes, Forms and Practical Suggestions. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company... More

Chalfant, Ella. A Goodly Heritage. Earliest Wills on an American Frontier. University of Pittsburgh Press, [1955]. xii, 239 pp. Orig. red gilt lettered cloth in a worn dust jacket. Very good. $45. * A study of the wills of the men and women who first settled in Pittsburgh, "the Gateway to the West."More

Rocher, Ludo, Editor and Translator. Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga: The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal. With an Introduction and Notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Stamped cloth. New. $72.More

The "Romance" of Wills [Wills]. Studies in Wills: Romance and Interest of An Old Story. Baltimore: Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, [1926]. [iv], 25 pp. Color frontispiece. Black-and white plates. Cloth very good in moderately worn and soiled dust jacket. $15. * A charming history of wills from antiquity to the present.More